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Video: Biden Threatening to Impeach President If He Launches an Attack Without Congressional Authority

Following up on Ace's post
here is Biden telling Chris Matthews back in 2007 that he is deadly
serious about attempting to impeach Bush if he goes to war in Iran
without congressional authorization:

Matthews: You said that if the President of the United States had
launched an attack on Iran without congressional approval that would
have been an impeachable offense. Do you want to review that comment you
made? Well how do you stand on that now?

Biden:Yes I do. I want to stand by the comment I made. The reason I
made the comment was as a warning. I don't say those things lightly,
Chris, you've known me for a long time. I was chairman of the judiciary
committee for 17 years or its ranking member. I teach separation of
powers and constitutional law. This is something I know. So I got
together and brought a group of constitutional scholars together to
write a piece that I'm going to deliver to the whole United State Senate
pointing out the President has no constitutional authority...to take
this nation to war against a county of 70 million people unless we're
attacked or unless there is proof we are about to be attacked. And if he
does, if he does, I would move to impeach him. The House obviously has
to do that but I would lead an effort to impeach him. The reason for my
doing that, I don't say it lightly, I don't say it lightly. I say it
because they should understand that what they were threatening, what
they were saying, what it was adding up to be, what it looked like to
the rest of the world we were about to do would be the most disastrous
thing that could be done in this moment in our history that I could
think of.

Yep. And Biden was speaking about going to war w/o approval...which is illegal. But pres' can do limited and short term attacks in "emergency" situations where we don't have time to wait for slow ass congress to act. So I guess we'll have to wait to see how this one plays out. Every finger and toe crossed that we don't need to put any more soldiers in harm's way.

Quoting snookyfritz:

Well, since the Bush administration, the powers given the president are unprecedented. This is the sort of thing that happens when powers are left unchecked

Yep. And Biden was speaking about going to war w/o approval...which is illegal. But pres' can do limited and short term attacks in "emergency" situations where we don't have time to wait for slow ass congress to act. So I guess we'll have to wait to see how this one plays out. Every finger and toe crossed that we don't need to put any more soldiers in harm's way.

Quoting snookyfritz:

Well, since the Bush administration, the powers given the president are unprecedented. This is the sort of thing that happens when powers are left unchecked

Yep. And Biden was speaking about going to war w/o approval...which is illegal. But pres' can do limited and short term attacks in "emergency" situations where we don't have time to wait for slow ass congress to act. So I guess we'll have to wait to see how this one plays out. Every finger and toe crossed that we don't need to put any more soldiers in harm's way.

Quoting snookyfritz:

Well, since the Bush administration, the powers given the president are unprecedented. This is the sort of thing that happens when powers are left unchecked

Seems like this post is trying to highlight some flip flop Biden did before it even happens. Pols are notoriously hypocritical, but at least wait until they actually put their foot in their mouth before saying "see, told ya". And with Biden, foot-in-mouth is never far away. Lol

Quoting RandRMomma:

Took the words out of my mouth.

Quoting Luvnlogic:

Yep. And Biden was speaking about going to war w/o approval...which is illegal. But pres' can do limited and short term attacks in "emergency" situations where we don't have time to wait for slow ass congress to act. So I guess we'll have to wait to see how this one plays out. Every finger and toe crossed that we don't need to put any more soldiers in harm's way.

Quoting snookyfritz:

Well, since the Bush administration, the powers given the president are unprecedented. This is the sort of thing that happens when powers are left unchecked

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